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Red Sea State Red Sea State
Governor: Mohmed Taheir Aila
Geography: Red Sea State is in the Eastern Sudan region of Sudan.
Capital: Port Sudan
Area 218,887 km2 (84,513 sq miles)
Population 1,396,000 (2010 (est.))
- Thursday 14 February 2013
February 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Members from the Eastern Front (EF), a former rebel group who are part of the East Reconstruction and Development Fund (ERDF), unleashed a barrage of criticism at Khartoum, claiming that the latter has (...)
- Tuesday 13 November 2012
November 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz said today that the country has 762 million barrels of oil reserves as of 2012 and disclosed that his ministry is seeking to boost gas reserves as well. Sudanese (...)
- Wednesday 23 May 2012
May 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of foreign affairs, Ali Karti, has suggested that Israel is likely to be behind an air strike that destroyed a car and killed one person in the country’s eastern city of Port Sudan on (...)
- Friday 1 June 2012
May 31, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) has ordered seven foreign aid groups to suspend their humanitarian activities in eastern Sudan following the findings of an assessment study reporting infractions they (...)
- Thursday 24 May 2012
May 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – An official from Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has accused local spies of Israel’s national intelligence agency known as Mossad of providing information that enabled the bombing of a car in the (...)
- Tuesday 26 June 2012
June 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir on Monday issued a decree relieving nine of his advisers from their positions as part of a countrywide downsizing of executive authorities that saw entire regional governments (...)
- Wednesday 29 August 2012
August 28, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese presidential assistant representing the eastern part of the country has complained about his lack of inclusion in decision-making. FILE PHOTO - Sudan’s presidential assistant and former eastern (...)
- Monday 28 May 2012
May 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese delegation led by the minister of roads was forced to cancel a visit to the disputed town of Halayib after being prevented from entering the area by Egyptian troops, an official revealed on Sunday. (...)
- Thursday 31 January 2013
January 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Police in the coastal town of Port Sudan used tear gas to disperse protests by angry commuters stranded due to lack of public transportation. File - Southern Sudanese men carry their belongings to buses (...)
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